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Montezuma

Ghost town · Covington County, Alabama

River Falls quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
River Falls quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Montezuma is a ghost town in Covington County, Alabama. It is one of 3 former communities in Covington County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 28th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Montezuma as a historical populated place on the River Falls topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.3224° N, 86.5250° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleRiver Falls
Elevation166 ft
Nearest living townRiver Falls, AL
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID133418
Coordinates31.32239, -86.52496

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Montezuma today, aerial view
River Falls quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: River Falls quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Montezuma is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is River Falls, AL (population 534), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 166 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Montezuma?

Montezuma is in Covington County, Alabama, at 31.3224, -86.5250.

How many ghost towns are in Covington County?

Covington County, Alabama has 3 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.